A fresh retelling of the maniacs in the woods story
Added 11/9/2009
I enjoyed this movie. In short, a family is on a holiday-like event in (presumably) Britain, then get stranded only to find themselves hunted by a rather large extended family of mutated humans. The movie does a good job of maintaining an eerie mood throughout, with good suspense and well crafted horror scenes. The advertised story speaks of substantial gore, but I didn't find it that way. I am not a particular fan of gore, and found the amount shown generally agreeable and not gore for gore's sake. The acting was pretty good, and the production values high. The film was, however, shot (at least the day scenes) with a blue filter, which takes a particular skill level to employ effectively. Overall, a worthy rental.
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Rent first...
Added 10/26/2009
Im glad I did! It Wasn't really a horrible way to kill time, but the acting was just atrocious and that was kinda hard to sit through. There were a few creepy parts involving the "eye" girl, but there really was not a whole lot of explanation for what the hell was going on. I love a good independant horror flick as much as the next guy, but this was pretty bad. Rent first before you decide to make your purchase.
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Great horror film turns into a very creepy fairy tale at the end
Added 8/16/2009
I can't say enough about this film. Just finished it about twenty minutes and it is fantastic! I longed for a commentary track to go with it. And the ending made me think of the ending of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, if only you can cross the...Great work everyone and thank you!
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Interesting Despite So Many Unconvincing Scenes
Added 8/13/2009
Freaky and weird and the potential for this movie was never discovered. The ending ruined the movie for me (as so many times happens unfortunately so don't look too much into that). It's not necessarily bad acting, but the actors/actresses seem really uncomfortable or even new to the profession and it shows (except for Rosemary). The more I think about it, the actors/actresses seem to be my biggest problem with the film.
As a B movie it was not a flop but didn't live up to the potential I saw (mostly the actors/actresses I think). Many, MANY things seemed way over the top. The characters don't really fight back, and then all of a sudden they go berzerk with sharp objects; but then they can kill one minute and the very next they are not fighting back at all. So it's pretty erratic how the characters will react. At times they are just being slapped with little branches and sit there and take it. Then someone comes and starts to beat them up and they still just take it. People trying to get away once they know what is going on spend too much time pausing and thinking instead of running. The missing "common sense" of the characters in their situations just adds to the poor acting. A wire being pulled by two kids (not much strength there) in opposite directions causes enough tension to cut through solid bone and being shot point-blank in the face with a shotgun is not enough to kill someone. Unbelievable.
But, believe it or not, this is a movie you could watch more than once just for the fun of it (maybe that is because you know it's a B movie and not a failed A-list movie). I was interested from start to finish of the movie and considering how many issues I had with it I'm even surprised at my interest throughout the movie. I would suggest renting and not buying the movie though.
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Doesn't live up to its potential
Added 7/28/2009
Taking the horror genre to Ireland for a change, I was looking forward to seeing what they had done with Plague Town. The answer was "not much" - aside from some effective imagery (the few scenes with the blindfold girl were well done) the film plays out like a re-hashing of any of the recent "torture porn" films, such as The Hills Have Eyes or Wolf Creek. The acting on some cases is bad, even by low-budget standards.
Sadly, with all that Ireland has to offer a horror film - from gorgeous lanscapes to castle settings - the producers of this film gave us just another cottage in the woods, and some people who are so hard to like, you don't care by the time they die.
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Should be listed as a comedy
Added 8/8/2009
Plague Town looked like it had a good premise but really failed to deliver. The story follows a family that is visiting Ireland and misses their tour bus by seconds (don't bus drivers use their side mirrors). This leads to the family fighting for the next half of the movie with forced acting by all. The two sisters fight the most going so far as to dropping the C word bomb! Basically we laughed through the whole thing, especially while watching how effective a plastic hubcap can actually be used as a murder weapon (who knew????) I would say if you really wanted to see this movie rent it first, I'm sure you will thank me for saving you $15 bucks
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Plague Town - Blu-ray Info
Added 6/27/2009
Version: U.S.A / Dark Sky / Region Free
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-25 / AACS
Running time: 1:25:05
Feature size: 18,417,738,816 bytes
Disc size: 23,931,418,166 bytes
Total bit rate: 28.86 Mbps
Average video bit rate: 22.98 Mbps
DTS-HD Master Audio English 2104 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2104 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
LPCM Audio English 1536 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Dolby Digital Audio English 448 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish
Number of chapters: 16
#Audio Commentary with Director David Gregory & Producer Derek Curl
#Featurettes
--Visit to Plague Town (SD - 28m:35s)
--The Sounds of Plague Town (SD - 16m:09s)
#Scathed - (SD - 40m:45s)
#Theatrical trailer (SD - 02m:17s)
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Fairly lame
Added 6/3/2009
Considering that Plague Town has actually gotten some good press within the horror community, I was kind of looking forward to checking it out, and upon doing so, I walked away thinking I just saw a pretty lame direct-to-DVD horror flick that wasted any potential it had. The plot is pretty familiar: a group of people (in this case a bickering family and the English dude one of the daughter's picked up are visiting Ireland) wind up at a very wrong place at a very wrong time, and end up meeting some pretty grisly demises at the hands of some mutant children. At first glance, the film has a lot going for it, especially the closer it gets to its grim denouement, as tension mounts and a sense of dread permeates as the film moves towards its conclusion. What kills Plague Town in the end however is that this has got to be one of the worst and most annoying casts you'll ever come across. I'm not expecting much in the least, especially in a low budget, direct-to-DVD horror flick, but the overly atrocious acting is more of a distraction than anything else. Not to mention some poor lighting and gore effects, and the fact that the film doesn't really pick up for quite a while. All in all, you'll definitely see worse horror fare than Plague Town, and you'll certainly see better ones as well.
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